Figures about Extrasolar Planets
and related subjects
©,1998 Jean Schneider
Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon, France
from the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
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- Facts about planets and (proto)planetary systems.
- Individual systems
See individual pages in the Catalog
- Global views and statistics
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Orbits and Masses of Extrasolar Planets (Marcy et al)
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Mass histogram (Marcy et al)
- Orbital Eccentricity vs Orbital Size (Marcy et al)
- Distance of planetary systems from the Sun (ESO)
- Position in the sky:
- They are everywhere (Korzennick)
- Methodologies, instruments and projects.
- Principles of detection methods
- Diagram
of methods
(pdf; M. Perryman)
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Capabilities of Various Planet Detection Methods. (Borucki et al.)
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Wobble of a star (Marcy)
- Astrometry:
Astrometric displacement of the Sun due to Jupiter
as seen from 10 pc (Shao et al.)
- Imaging:
- Dark speckles:
- 2-D simulations (Boccaletti et al.)
- Nulling (Bracewell interferometetric coronograph):
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Principle of nulling (Ollivier)
- Principle of nulling
(Schneider)
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Results on alf Tau (Hinz et al.)
- Interferential Coronography (CIA)
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Principle of CIA - 1 (Baudoz et al.)
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Principle of CIA - 2 (Baudoz et al.)
- Transits
- Light curve of a transit (Deeg)
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Light-curve of a star as a planet transits.
(Esquerdo et al)
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Variation of the transit depth with stellar and planet
size (Esquerdo et al)
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Lensing. Various figures (Sackett)
- Spacecrafts
- GAIA:
- Domain
of exploration in the Galaxy (Perryman et al.)
- GAIA
gallery (Perryman et al.)
- Viewgraphs of IRSI/DARWIN Several figures (Penny et al.)
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Kepler (Borucki et al.)
- JWGST
- Design overview
- SIM
viewgraphs Several figures (Shao et al.)
- TPF
- Structure concepts (Beichman et al.)
- Theory and simulations
- Atmospheres
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Flux vs. wavelength curve for giant planets (M. Marley)
- Cometary tails of close giant
planets (Schneider and Sekulic)
- Reflection
on a close-in planet (animation; Rouan)
- Disc-planet interaction, orbital migration...
- FARGO
2-D polar hydro code for disk planet tidal interactions. (F. Masset)
- Different cases of migration (Masset)
- Forming a 51 Peg (Lin, Bodenheimer, Richardson)
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Disk-planet interaction: small planets before gap opening (Artymowicz)
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Disk-planet interaction: gap opening by planets (Artymowicz)
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Disk-planet interaction: massive planets and superplanets (Artymowicz)
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Gaps with spiral shocks and gas flow onto the planet
Various pictures (Artymowicz, Kley)
- Mass flow through the gap and
close up (Kley, Artymowicz)
- Mass Flow and Accretion through Gaps in Accretion Discs
various figures and movie (Kley)
- movie of onset of gap formation (Kley)
- Accretion onto protoplanet several figures (Kley)
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Gas flow around and onto the planet.Various pictures
(Seibert and Lubow)
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Eccentricity evolution: disks circularize small planets,
deform orbits of superplanets (Artymowicz, Lubow, Kley)
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Orbital migration: summary of results. Various pictures
(Bryden, Lin, Papaloizou, Ward)
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Gap in a disc produced by a planet (Bryden)
- Habitable Zones
- Habitable stable orbits
(for 4 known systems, Jones et al 2001)
- Imagination
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Graphics on extrasolar planets (Cook)
- Extrasolar
visions (Whatmough)
- The planetary system around PSR1257+12 as seen
from one of its planets (Wolszczan).
- People.
- Paul Butler and Geoff
Marcy
- Geoff Marcy
- Mayor and
Queloz
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the authors of these figures for rendering this page possible
and especially to Pawel Artymowicz for discussions.
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